Peg board bracket



April 1960 J. A. A. MESSIER 2,933,277

PEG BOARD BRACKET Filed April 25, 1957 ATTORNEY United States Patent PEG BOARD BRACKET Joseph A. A. Messier, East Montpelier, Vt. Application April 26, 1957, Serial No. 655,334

7 Claims. (Cl. 248-223) easy shifting of wall brackets to a wide variety of selectivelocations over a given area of wall surface.

A further object is to provide firm and dependable support for a wall bracket so as to permit ready removal of its load article and of the wall bracket itself in any of such varied locations and without the use of tools or extraneous fastening means.

A further object is to utilize the mounting shank of a wall bracket to mechanically associate and couple in fixed alignment two otherwise separate and independently displaceable neighboring support sockets that may be plugged individually into chosen anchorage holes in a Peg Board or the like.

A still further object is to provide sockets for this purload supporting bracket 25. United with said shank the. bracket has a rigid load article supporting structure herein.

pose which can be mounted on a Peg Board in pairs of which the two independent sockets can be placed in positions of mutual alignment at a variety of angular dispositions in addition to the vertical and the horizontal against the front face of the Peg Board.

The foregoing and other objects of the invention will appear in greater particular from the following description of a successful embodiment of the improvements in which reference is had to the accompanying drawings wherein:

Fig. 1 is a fragmentary front elevation of a Peg Board having removably mounted thereon sockets supporting a wall bracket according to principles of the invention.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the device shown in Fig. 1,

Fig. 3 is a side elevation showing the Peg Board in see tion on the plane 3-3 in Fig, 1 looking in the direction of the arrows.

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a lower portion of the structure shown in Fig. 3 with the Peg Board omitted.

Fig. 5 shows one of the mounting sockets being moved toward or away from its anchored position in the Peg Board. l

A typical Peg Board 12 can be made use of in practicing this invention such' board containing as usual any desired distribution of anchorage holes 13. There are provided two or more support sockets 14 alike, each socket in the form herein shown affording a vertically extending channel between the side walls of a U-shaped member 15 which may comprise a bent strip of metal or a casting of any suitable material preferably having the lateral flanges 16 extending in opposite directions. The rear opening of the channel in member 15 is walled in to form a closed socket by welding the butt end 18 of a crank-shaped short piece of rod 17 into the channel. The rest of the length of rod 17 forms an offset portion 20 of size to be inserted into and withdrawn from any selected 2,933,277 Patented Apr. 19, 1960* of the Peg Board. The two sockets 14 are occupied.

simultaneously by the vertical mounting shank 24 of a illustrated as a simple arm 26 extending outward from the Peg Board at the top of the shank although more complex structure capable of supporting a load article may be substituted for or added to the arm 26 including various hookshaped or loop-shaped formations or shelf-like formations made by suitable bends in an extended length of arm 26. At its foremost end the load supporting arm 26 carried a pivot pin illustrated as a bolt 27 extending horizontally through a hole that opens crosswise through the arm. Bracket 25 also has a guard lip 28 upstanding rigidly at the foremost end of the load supporting arm 26 to act as a positive retainer for load articles resting on the arm as represented roughly at 29 in Fig. 3.

In the particular embodiment of the invention herein illustrated the shank 24 the load supporting arm 26 and guard lip 28 are all formed by a continuous run of flat sided bent steel rod or strip preferably having a square or rectangular cross section throughout. Such strip is looped back upon itself at the forward end of arm 26 to form the hole inwhich bolt 27 is lodged. The bolt is retained by a nut 30.

Around bolt 27 at each side of'bracket 25 there is coiled a continuous length of suitably coarse resilient wire forming a swingable clamp 34 comprising an elongated upstanding loop 35, of the wire that extends from one to the other of the wire coils 36. These coils form a hinge-like coupling of the clamp 34 to bracket 25. The lower free ends 37 of the spring wire are bent laterally toward each other and engage the under surface of arm 26 so as constantly to bias the upstanding portion of clamp 34 toward or against the front surface of the Peg Board at an incline as shown in Fig. 3. The bight'38 at the upper end of the elongated loop 35 is bent forward at an angle oblique to the Peg Board for enabling load articles when lowered along the surface of the Peg Board 'to cam the bight 38 away from the Peg Board and drop to a position of rest on the support arm 26 of bracket 25; after which the load article remains urged toward the Peg Board by the resilient pressure of the clamp. Thus the guard lip 28 is assisted by clamp 34 preventing accidental escape of various shapes and sizes of load articles from their in; tended position of rest upon bracket 25.

The invention may be embodied in various forms and relationships differing from the example herein illustrated and described. For instance a plurality of shanks like 24, each being mounted in a pair of sockets 14 as herein disclosed, may be empolyed in a manner to contribute to the support of a single load article supporting structure which structure as hereinbefore mentioned may be a mere hook-shaped or loop-shaped formation or a shelflike formation comprised of suitable bends in a common and continuous extended length of arm 26 which may serve to join two or more of the said plurality of shanks. Such shanks may be spaced laterally on the Peg Board or vertically or both. They may also be spaced apart in alignment with a common axis which is diagonally disposed by mounting two of the sockets in anchorage holes respectively which are not in the same horizontal or vertical row of holes, whereby to hold the shank 24 in asse slanting -dispositions inn common vertical plane. For

somepurposesiofatheinventionthe-shank maybe oihround cross section in which casethe shank can swivel in the sockets and the bracket structure 26 will be swingable horiz'ontally-..

'- The claims. are intended to apply to and ,corverthe above and such other variations as come within a broad intern pretation-ot: their wording.

I claim: a

l. A relocatablevholdenfor supporting'a readily. removable load article at the front of en-upright wall comprisingthe combination of, a vertical Peg-Board (1011-;

taini-ng multiple anchorage holes, a plurality. ofseparate:

neighboring supporting sockets swingable independently of each other 'parallellywiththe frontsurface; of said;

boardg each of said sockets havinga different mounting tongue projecting backward from saidsurfaceof the board-i and-into anothcrof said separate sockets in a. manner to.

maintain. said sockets in fixed coaxial alignment, said bracket including rigid with said mounting i shank a load article supporting structure extending in an outward direction from'said Peg Board.

' 2; A relocatable holder defined inclaim l,.in which. each-of the said separate sockets is equipped with'laterall'y extending flanges positionedto abut the front surface. of the said-Peg Board'in spaced relation to corresponding flanges onanother of said sockets when the said terminal portions of the said mounting tongues engage the said rear surface of said Peg Board, whereby to restrict each of. said sockets against rocking from side to sideagainst said front-surface of the PegBoard,

' 3; 'A- relocatableholder its-defined iii-claimed, inwhich the said terminal portion of each of-the. said mounting freniovably anchored in -a different one ofa said; holes including a terminal tongue portion: ofsize toapass ward said inclined. position.

- ingtoward tthe saidPcg Board, and the said mounting;

tongues of each of saidsockets extends from the said lodged portion of? the. tongue in a direction .away .f ron1.the

other socket.

4. A relocatable holder as defined in claim 1, in which the said load article supporting arm of the said bracket contains at its forward end a laterally extending hole, a hinge pin extending through and out of said hole, a guard lip rigid with said arm and upstanding therefrom in the vicinity of said hole spaced forward from the said Peg Board to admit and retain .alwork article between the latter and said lip, a swingable clamp hinged on said pin to swing to a position inclined backward toward said Peg Board, and resilient means ,yieldably urging said. clamp to- 5. A relocatable holder-"as defined in claim 4, in which all component portions of the said bracket including the said shank and the said load article supporting arm and the said hole and the said upstanding guard lip are formed by a continuous run ot-flat surfaced strip metal bent to form said componentportionsr 6 A relooatableholdet as defined -in.-cla.im l, in which eachof the said sockets comprises a U-shaped member of:

benttrneta'l having side wallsiseparated by a channel opentongue comprises a crank-shaped rod fixedly lodged in said channel 7. A relocatable holder as defined in claim -6,- in which the-saidcrank-shaped rod is positionedin the said channel to lie parallel rwith and in contact with the said mounting shank. of; the saidload supporting bracket.

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